Coimbatore is a second-tier industrial town in the steamy-hot south of India with no cosmopolitan flair.

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Medhi is applying the same concept at an eye hospital in Coimbatore, where 80% of the patients are illiterate and a single doctor checks 400 patients a day.

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Kannan, a police superintendent of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state.

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